Joyce Compton

Joyce Compton

Born: January 27, 1907
Died: October 13, 1997
in Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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Olivia Joyce Compton (January 27, 1907 – October 13, 1997) was an American actress. Compton was born in Lexington, Kentucky. (Despite frequent reports to the contrary, her name was not originally "Eleanor Hunt"; she had appeared in the film Good Sport (1931) with Hunt and this confusion in an early press article followed Compton throughout her career.) After graduating high school she spent two years studying at the University of Tulsa, studying dramatics, art, music and dancing. She won a personality and beauty contest and spent two months in a film studio as an extra.

Compton first made a name for herself when she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, alongside Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray. Compton appeared in a long string of mostly B-movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. She was a comedy actress and protested at being stereotyped as a "dumb blonde".

Among her over two hundred films were Imitation of Life, Magnificent Obsession, The Awful Truth, Mildred Pierce, and The Best Years of Our Lives.

A devout Christian, on her gravestone, just beneath her dates of birth and death, is written "Christian Actress". She died from natural causes, aged 90, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.

Movies for Joyce Compton...

Title: Pete and Gladys
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: TV
Pete and Gladys is an American situation comedy television series starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams that aired on CBS on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time for two seasons, beginning on September 19, 1960. The last episode was broadcast on September 10, 1962.
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Girl in the Woods
Title: Girl in the Woods
Character: Aunt Martha
Released: June 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Lumbering tale of lumbermen challenging the ownership of valuable woodlands.
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Jet Pilot
Title: Jet Pilot
Character: Mary Lou Simpson
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.
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Title: Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Character: Waitress
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: TV
Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
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The Persuader
Title: The Persuader
Character: Julie
Released: May 4, 1957
Type: Movie
In one of his rare movie starring assignments, William Talman (Hamilton Burger on TV's Perry Mason) plays a dual role in The Persuader. Talman is seen as gunslinger Matt Bonham and his twin brother, preacher Mark Bonham. When Mark is killed by outlaw leader Bick Justin (James Craig), Matt takes his brother's place in the pulpit, ramming the Fear of God down the throats of the wanton townspeople. Impressed by Bonham's courage, the townsfolk begin to follow the straight and narrow path.
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Title: The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Released: September 7, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.
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I Was a Burlesque Queen
Title: I Was a Burlesque Queen
Character: Mrs. Nunnally LaVitte
Released: July 13, 1953
Type: Movie
1947 film "Linda, Be Good" with added 3-D scenes with chorus girls.
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Mighty Joe Young
Title: Mighty Joe Young
Character: Alice (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.
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Grand Canyon
Title: Grand Canyon
Character: Mabel
Released: May 19, 1949
Type: Movie
A film company is shooting a western on location when the star breaks his leg. A local mule herder, who had never acted before, is "shanghaied" into taking over the role. Complications ensue.
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Incident
Title: Incident
Character: Joan
Released: October 30, 1948
Type: Movie
An innocent man -- due to a case of mistaken identity -- is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target -- a gangster-- and warn him.
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Sorry, Wrong Number
Title: Sorry, Wrong Number
Character: Cotterell's Blonde Girlfriend (uncredited)
Released: September 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
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A Southern Yankee
Title: A Southern Yankee
Character: Hortense Dobson
Released: August 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Red Skelton plays Aubrey Filmore, a feather-brained but lovable bellboy who dreams of becoming an agent for the Union's secret service during the Civil War.
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Linda, Be Good
Title: Linda, Be Good
Character: Mrs. LaVitte
Released: November 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A writer decides to join a burlesque show so that she can write an authentic expose of the business.
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Exposed
Title: Exposed
Character: Emmy
Released: September 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
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Scared to Death
Title: Scared to Death
Character: Jane Cornell
Released: February 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...
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The Best Years of Our Lives
Title: The Best Years of Our Lives
Character: Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1946
Type: Movie
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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Rendezvous with Annie
Title: Rendezvous with Annie
Character: Louise Grapa (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1946
Type: Movie
A homesick American soldier stationed in England during World War II makes an unauthorized trip to see his wife and returns to England with only two people knowing he was home for a few hours. When she learns that she is pregnant, she does not disclose that her husband had paid her a visit as to not get him into trouble. The townspeople are unanimous in their condemnation of her. But, after his discharge, he enlists the aid of a nightclub singer, the only other person who knew he came home.
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Dark Alibi
Title: Dark Alibi
Character: Emily Evans
Released: May 25, 1946
Type: Movie
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged. Charlie then proceeds to find the true bank robbers.
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Behind the Mask
Title: Behind the Mask
Character: Lulu
Released: May 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
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Danger Signal
Title: Danger Signal
Character: Kate
Released: November 21, 1945
Type: Movie
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
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Mildred Pierce
Title: Mildred Pierce
Character: Waitress (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
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Christmas in Connecticut
Title: Christmas in Connecticut
Character: Nurse Mary Lee
Released: July 27, 1945
Type: Movie
While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.
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Hitchhike to Happiness
Title: Hitchhike to Happiness
Character: Joan Randall
Released: July 16, 1945
Type: Movie
An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes of getting a break. Unfortunately, most of them believe that the waiter lacks the talent to make it big. Only an aspiring songwriter, and a former waitress who has become a famous Hollywood radio star, really believe in him. When the ex-waitress drops by the restaurant to say hello, she and the others decide to play a trick on an arrogant producer by making him believe the waiter has written a sure-fire hit. They succeed and the producer puts on the show. The singer gets to be the star. When the show becomes a smash, everyone is surprised. Songs include: "Hitchhike To Happiness," "For You And Me," "Sentimental," and "My Pushover Heart."
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Pillow to Post
Title: Pillow to Post
Character: Gertrude Wilson (uncredited)
Released: June 9, 1945
Type: Movie
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the shortage of housing due to the war, Jean needs a military husband to get a place to stay in Clayfield, which is next to Camp Clay. She gets Lt. Mallory to act as her husband just to register. Then things go wrong as his commanding officer is there and believes them to be married. It gets worse as Don's mother shows up and then Jean's father.
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Swing Out the Blues
Title: Swing Out the Blues
Character: Kitty Grogan
Released: December 23, 1943
Type: Movie
The film is partly a parody of The Goodwill Court, a popular radio problem hosted by advice-dispenser "Mr. Anthony". The host of a "What's your problem?" radio hour tries to smooth the romantic path of singer Rich Cleveland (Haymes) and his socialite wife Penelope (Lynn Merrick). The fly in the ointment is Dena Marshall (Janis Carter), who has set her sights on the handsome Rich.
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Silver Spurs
Title: Silver Spurs
Character: Millie Love
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.
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Let's Face It
Title: Let's Face It
Character: Wiggin's Girl (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the "fat farm" scheme to get back at their philandering husbands by hiring the soldier and two of his buddies as "escorts" for the weekend. Complications ensue when the husbands show up unexpectedly.
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Silver Skates
Title: Silver Skates
Character: Lucille
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The management of touring ice show faces mounting debts.
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Thunder Birds
Title: Thunder Birds
Character: Saleswoman
Released: October 28, 1942
Type: Movie
On a secluded base in Arizona, veteran World War I pilot Steve Britt trains flyers to fight in World War II. One of his trainees, Englishman Peter Stackhouse, competes with Britt for the affections of Kay Saunders, the daughter of a local rancher. Despite their differences, Britt makes sure Sutton passes his training and becomes a combat pilot -- even though he loses Kay to the young man in the process.
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Too Many Women
Title: Too Many Women
Character: Barbara Cartwright
Released: February 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Thanks to a fib intended to ward off an annoying real estate developer, a young bachelor finds himself engaged to three different women and pursued by a fourth, a gangster's sister.
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Bedtime Story
Title: Bedtime Story
Character: Beulah
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
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Blues in the Night
Title: Blues in the Night
Character: Blonde
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
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Moon Over Her Shoulder
Title: Moon Over Her Shoulder
Character: Cecilia
Released: October 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman.
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Scattergood Meets Broadway
Title: Scattergood Meets Broadway
Character: Diana Deane
Released: August 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. Scattergood decides to loan Elly the money but things are not as David has been telling his Mother...
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Manpower
Title: Manpower
Character: Scarlett
Released: August 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
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Ziegfeld Girl
Title: Ziegfeld Girl
Character: Miss Sawyer, Auditioning Showgirl (Uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
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Let's Make Music
Title: Let's Make Music
Character: Betty
Released: January 17, 1941
Type: Movie
An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
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Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
Title: Who Killed Aunt Maggie?
Character: Cynthia Lou
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
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The Villain Still Pursued Her
Title: The Villain Still Pursued Her
Character: Hazel Dalton
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
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Sky Murder
Title: Sky Murder
Character: Christine Cross / Her Twin Sister
Released: September 27, 1940
Type: Movie
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
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City for Conquest
Title: City for Conquest
Character: Lilly
Released: September 21, 1940
Type: Movie
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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They Drive by Night
Title: They Drive by Night
Character: Sue Carter (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1940
Type: Movie
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.
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I Take This Oath
Title: I Take This Oath
Character: Betty Casey
Released: May 20, 1940
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of a group of newly sworn-in police officers.
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Turnabout
Title: Turnabout
Character: Irene Clare
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
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Honeymoon Deferred
Title: Honeymoon Deferred
Character: Kitty Kerry
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Edmund Lowe plays an insurance investigator who interrupts his honeymoon to look into the case of a murder, which could also be a suicide, in which case his company won't have to pay the victim's contract. His wife, played by Margaret Lindsay, insists on following him around, not only to help him solve the case, but to make sure he doesn't get too friendly with any members of the opposite sex, either.
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Escape to Paradise
Title: Escape to Paradise
Character: Penelope Carter
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
An American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble.
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Balalaika
Title: Balalaika
Character: Masha
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Reno
Title: Reno
Character: Bonnie Newcomb
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.
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Hotel for Women
Title: Hotel for Women
Character: Emeline Thomas
Released: August 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.
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Rose of Washington Square
Title: Rose of Washington Square
Character: Peggy
Released: May 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
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Hollywood Hobbies
Title: Hollywood Hobbies
Character: Tourist
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
In this short film, two starstruck movie fans hire a tour guide and see a plethora of Hollywood stars.
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The Flying Irishman
Title: The Flying Irishman
Character: Sally
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight. On July 17, 1938, Mr. Corrigan loaded 320 gallons of gasoline (40 hours worth) into the tiny, single engine plane. While expressing his intent to fly west to Long Beach, CA, Mr. Corrigan flew out of Floyd Bennett Field heading east over the Atlantic. Instrumentation in the plane included two compasses (both malfunctioned) and a turn-and-bank indicator. The cabin door was held shut with baling wire. Nearly 29 hours later, he landed in Baldonnel near Dublin. He forever claimed to be surprised at arriving in Ireland rather than California. He returned to the US as a hero, with a ticker tape parade in New York and received numerous medals and awards.
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Going Places
Title: Going Places
Character: Joan
Released: December 31, 1938
Type: Movie
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
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Trade Winds
Title: Trade Winds
Character: Mrs. Johnson
Released: December 28, 1938
Type: Movie
After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and must outwit him to escape imprisonment.
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Artists and Models Abroad
Title: Artists and Models Abroad
Character: Chickie
Released: December 20, 1938
Type: Movie
Buck Boswell and his all-girl troupe are stranded in Paris, but Buck manages to con the manager of the 'Hotel de Navarre' in furnishing accommodations for his group, but the proprietor's wife locks them out. In his search for funds, Buck meets Patricia Harper, the fourth-richest girl in the world, but he isn't aware of that and thinks she is penniless. Patricia joins his troupe as a lark, and her father, James Harper, also pretends he is broke. Through some chicanery, Buck gets jobs for the girls as models at the Palace of Feminine Arts at the Paris International Exposition. James Harper borrows the priceless Napoleaon necklace to have a copy made for his daughter, but Buck thinks he stole it.
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The Last Warning
Title: The Last Warning
Character: Dawn Day aka Minnie Schultz
Released: December 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
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Spring Madness
Title: Spring Madness
Character: Sally
Released: November 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Harvard senior Sam Thatcher (Lew Ayres) and his best friend and roommate, known as "The Lippencott" (Burgess Meredith), plan to go to Russia after graduation, a decision Sam has kept from his girlfriend, Alexandra Benson (Maureen O'Sullivan).
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How to Watch Football
Title: How to Watch Football
Character: Benchley's girlfriend
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.
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You and Me
Title: You and Me
Character: Curly Blonde
Released: June 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
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Women Are Like That
Title: Women Are Like That
Character: Miss Hall
Released: April 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.
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Love on a Budget
Title: Love on a Budget
Character: Millie Brown
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.
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The Awful Truth
Title: The Awful Truth
Character: Dixie Belle Lee
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
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Small Town Boy
Title: Small Town Boy
Character: Molly Summers
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Henry Armstrong was past being a spring chicken, still believes in Santa Claus and the maxim that "honesty is the best policy", but lack of money keeps him from marrying Molly and buying a little home, and his is threatened with the loss of the petty job he has had for four years with old Curtis French, Molly's uncle, because he can not sell enough insurance policies. And, then, he finds a thousand dollar bill. His honesty makes him advertise the find, but no one claims the money. When he is convinced that the owner will not turn up and that the money is his to keep, he becomes a changed, more aggressive and self-confident person. He begins to make sales as fast as he can make the pitch and he insists that he and Molly be married at once. While getting dressed for the ceremony, he places the $1000 bill in one of his father's old suits, and Pa Armstrong, trying to raise money to buy his son a wedding present, sells the suit to a passing junk man.
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Sea Racketeers
Title: Sea Racketeers
Character: Blondie
Released: August 20, 1937
Type: Movie
J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling furs past the Coast Guard.
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The Toast of New York
Title: The Toast of New York
Character: Mary Lou (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1937
Type: Movie
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.
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Born Reckless
Title: Born Reckless
Character: Dora
Released: June 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion race-car driver, Bob Kane, joins with his friends Lee and "Dad" Martin in a fight for the street rights of a big city.
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Rhythm in the Clouds
Title: Rhythm in the Clouds
Character: Receptionist
Released: June 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Pick a Star
Title: Pick a Star
Character: Newlywed
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
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Wings Over Honolulu
Title: Wings Over Honolulu
Character: Caroline
Released: May 16, 1937
Type: Movie
A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.
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Top of the Town
Title: Top of the Town
Character: Beulah
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
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We Have Our Moments
Title: We Have Our Moments
Character: Carrie
Released: March 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down their necks, the crooks stash the loot in the trunk belonging to vacationing schoolmarm Mary Smith.
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China Passage
Title: China Passage
Character: Elaine Gentry
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on success or killed on failure. The diamond is stolen as they take possession of it.
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Three Smart Girls
Title: Three Smart Girls
Character: Evans' Secretary
Released: December 20, 1936
Type: Movie
The three Craig sisters Penny, Kay, and Joan, go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him with their mother.
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Country Gentlemen
Title: Country Gentlemen
Character: Gertie
Released: November 8, 1936
Type: Movie
After being run out of town after town for trying to sell worthless stock, two con artists breeze into the small town of Chesterville, where they find themselves accused of kidnapping a young boy to whom they offered a ride. When that misunderstanding is cleared up, the two conmen hatch a plot to unload all their worthless paper on the gullible citizens of Chesterville.
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Under Your Spell
Title: Under Your Spell
Character: Secretary (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.
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Ellis Island
Title: Ellis Island
Character: Adele
Released: November 4, 1936
Type: Movie
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon apprehended and sent to prison for ten years but the money is not recovered. Flash forward to 1936 when all three men have been released from prison and are about to be deported back to where they came from via the Deportation department at Ellis Island. They arrive by the ferry boat and already on hand to bid them adieu, and possibly learn where they stashed the missing money, is gang leader Dude and his three henchmen, Nails, Moxie and Bugs, and also Kendrich's niece Betty Parker there to bid old Uncle Ted a fond goodbye. Also on Ellis Island is a crook called Solo, who has an upper hand as he has stolen the credentials of a Treasury Agent named Peter James and has access to the prisoners, and has cut a deal with Kendrichs to get him off of Ellis Island.
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Murder with Pictures
Title: Murder with Pictures
Character: Hester Boone
Released: September 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman who confronted Girard in front of him, but Murdock's fiancée Hester shows up. After they return to his apartment, have a fight, and she leaves, the mystery woman slips in and begs for his help. Police Inspector Bacon and the cops show up, looking for the mystery woman; Murdock hides her. Murdock goes with the cops to discuss the murder the woman is suspected of. Bacon explains (in flashback) how some photogs were setting up a shot with Girard and Redfield. When the flashbulbs popped, Redfield keeled over dead and the woman, Meg Archer, fled while the newsmen ran out to phone their papers. The newsmen (who were rounded up later as thoroly as possible) are taken into police custody, except for Murdock (who wasn't at the scene), who is given a cap on the sly by rival McGoogin. Altho ...
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Sitting on the Moon
Title: Sitting on the Moon
Character: Blossom
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A successful songwriter and a struggling singer become involved professionally and romantically on the road to stardom.
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Star for a Night
Title: Star for a Night
Character: Ellen Romaine
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
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Trapped by Television
Title: Trapped by Television
Character: Mae Collins
Released: June 15, 1936
Type: Movie
An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
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The Harvester
Title: The Harvester
Character: Thelma Biddle
Released: April 18, 1936
Type: Movie
In a small town in Indiana in the 1890s, the domineering and ambitious Mrs. Biddle arranges a marriage between her spoiled daughter Thelma and the town's prize catch, harvester David Langston, who is wedded to the soil. David is friends with orphan Ruth Jameson and, although she is in love with him, he eventually gives in to the machinations of Mrs. Biddle and consents to marry Thelma. Meanwhile, technological advances come to town, including its first gasoline buggy, galvanic battery, and metal bathtub fitted with running water. When Mrs. Biddle tries to convince David to give up the farming life and join her husband in real estate, Mr. Biddle, hen-pecked and dissatisfied with city life, warns David against selling his farm.
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Love Before Breakfast
Title: Love Before Breakfast
Character: Mary Lee
Released: March 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Scott is a very rich businessman who hangs out with a snooty, silly Countess, but has the hots for Kay who is already engaged to Bill. Scott pursues Kay like crazy, going so far as to buy Bill's oil company so that he can banish him to Japan, leaving Kay unmoored.
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Valley of the Lawless
Title: Valley of the Lawless
Character: Joan Jenkins
Released: January 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Johnny Mack Brown goes in search of a treasure map tattooed on the chest of a man who once betrayed his father.
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Public Ghost # 1
Title: Public Ghost # 1
Character: Miss Compton
Released: December 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Charley is hired to haunt a house.
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Suicide Squad
Title: Suicide Squad
Character: Mary O'Connor
Released: December 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Larry Baker is a young fireman whose daring exploits have led him to receiving a lot of newspaper publicity which goes to his head. His sweetheart, Mary O'Connor, and fire-department friends begin to shun him as they think he is just a publicity hound. But a daring rescue of Mary and her younger brother, Mickey, from a blazing inferno shows him to be more than just a publicity-chaser and, now, a real hero to all.
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Life Hesitates at 40
Title: Life Hesitates at 40
Character: Joyce
Released: November 18, 1935
Type: Movie
Charley finds himself having strange spells during which everything around him seems to stop.
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Manhattan Monkey Business
Title: Manhattan Monkey Business
Character: Joyce
Released: November 9, 1935
Type: Movie
When Charley can't pay his bill at a restaurant, he is forced to become a waiter.
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College Scandal
Title: College Scandal
Character: Toby Carpenter
Released: June 21, 1935
Type: Movie
Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found murdered. When an attempt on the life of a third one is made. Seth Dunlap, an instructor at the school, decides to turn detective and find the killer. Assisted by his sister, who is in love with the third student, Dunlap begins to follow the the small trail of clues left by the killer.
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Let 'em Have It
Title: Let 'em Have It
Character: Barbara
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
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Go Into Your Dance
Title: Go Into Your Dance
Character: Café Showgirl
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
An irresponsible Broadway star gets mixed up with gambling and gangsters.
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Rustlers of Red Dog
Title: Rustlers of Red Dog
Character: Mary Lee
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier settlement. A group of three compatriots -- upstanding ex-sheriff Jack Woods, his harmonica-playing friend Laramie and tricky, smooth-talking gambler Deacon -- combine their respective skills in a fateful struggle to deceive and disarm the gang.
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Caravan
Title: Caravan
Character: Party Girl at Beer Garden (Uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1934
Type: Movie
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
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Imitation of Life
Title: Imitation of Life
Character: Young Woman at Party (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
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The White Parade
Title: The White Parade
Character: Una Mellon
Released: November 16, 1934
Type: Movie
The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way.
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Everything's Ducky
Title: Everything's Ducky
Character: Jennie Taylor, Eddie's Wife
Released: October 18, 1934
Type: Movie
Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough take to the streets as pots and pans salesmen, wreaking havoc door to door with their demonstrations of their cookware.
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King Kelly of the U.S.A.
Title: King Kelly of the U.S.A.
Character: Maxine LaTour
Released: September 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daughter of the dotty king, who has promised her to another.
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Million Dollar Ransom
Title: Million Dollar Ransom
Character: Millie, Hat Check Girl (Uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1934
Type: Movie
To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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Affairs of a Gentleman
Title: Affairs of a Gentleman
Character: Foxey Dennison
Released: May 1, 1934
Type: Movie
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Margot (Uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Sing, Sinner, Sing
Title: Sing, Sinner, Sing
Character: Gwen
Released: August 16, 1933
Type: Movie
A singer on a gambling ship is married to a wealthy playboy. When he is found murdered, all evidence points to her as the culprit, and she is put on trial for the crime.
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Roadhouse Queen
Title: Roadhouse Queen
Character: Dorothy
Released: June 29, 1933
Type: Movie
Walter Catlett learns his son Ben Alexander has thrown over fiancee Joyce Compton for acrobat Nora Lane. He takes lawyer Arthur Housman to the road house where she is performing to lay down the law.
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Dream Stuff
Title: Dream Stuff
Character: Betty
Released: May 11, 1933
Type: Movie
Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl from accomplished gunman, boxer, and horseman Franklin Pangborn (!?), or is that just DREAM STUFF?
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The Plumber and the Lady
Title: The Plumber and the Lady
Character: Louise
Released: March 31, 1933
Type: Movie
A Mack Sennett talking comedy, released through Paramount Pictures, starring Frank Albertson, Marjorie Beebe, Joyce Compton, Herman Bing, Gertrude Astor and Matt McHugh.
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Caliente Love
Title: Caliente Love
Character: Betty
Released: March 9, 1933
Type: Movie
Poor Walter Catlett messes up the wedding of Joyce Compton and, after botching his suicide attempt, rides along on her honeymoon at Aguas Caliente. Can he get for himself some CALIENTE LOVE at the Casino, or will someone give him the sound thrashing he needs?
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Luxury Liner
Title: Luxury Liner
Character: Girl Overboard (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
This drama offers a few slices from the lives of those who live, work, and travel upon a luxurious trans-atlantic ocean liner.
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The Wrestler's Bride
Title: The Wrestler's Bride
Character: Mrs. Scissors Jackson
Released: January 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Joyce Compton tries to help her new husband, Eddie Gribbon (as Scissors Jackson), win a wrestling match which he incorrectly thinks is framed in his favor. Wrestlers Hans Steinke plays the wrestling champion and Bull Heffner his opponent.
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If I Had a Million
Title: If I Had a Million
Character: Marie - Waitress (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
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Afraid to Talk
Title: Afraid to Talk
Character: Alice - Party Girl
Released: November 17, 1932
Type: Movie
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.
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Madison Square Garden
Title: Madison Square Garden
Character: Joyce
Released: November 4, 1932
Type: Movie
Eddie Burke is a wise-guy pugilist whose talent is unevenly matched by his ego. Despite his character flaws, Eddie knows the meaning of loyalty. When his manager Doc Williams is offered the opportunity to stage a match at Madison Square Garden, but only if he gets rid of his stable of fighters, Eddie fabricates an alibi and stages a walkout on Doc.
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False Faces
Title: False Faces
Character: Dottie Nation
Released: October 12, 1932
Type: Movie
The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in Chicago as a "prestigious" plastic surgeon to the stars. However, Brenton's silver tongue can't cover up his dubious methods, and an investigation into his practice is launched by the examining board of plastic surgeons. A delirious film à clef based on the loathsome career of Henry J. Schireson, the self-styled “King of Quacks”.
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A Parisian Romance
Title: A Parisian Romance
Character: Marcelle
Released: October 1, 1932
Type: Movie
The Baron is an aging, cynical lady's man. He has a key-chain with about 50 keys to different women' apartments in Paris. He selects one at random to see who he will sleep with at night. His adversary is a young Parisian artist (the next Picasso), Victor. Victor believes in love and he's going to marry his girlfriend Claudette as soon as he sells his first painting. The Baron seduces Claudette, seemingly to teach Victor a lesson. However, as might be predicted, he soon falls in love with Claudette himself.
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Fighting for Justice
Title: Fighting for Justice
Character: Amy Tracy
Released: August 28, 1932
Type: Movie
Property taxes, murder charges, and outlaws trouble the son of a dead rancher.
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Lady and Gent
Title: Lady and Gent
Character: Betty
Released: July 10, 1932
Type: Movie
Stag Bailey, a slow-witted prizefighter, and his girlfriend, speakeasy hostess Puff Rogers, take over the upbringing of Ted Streaver after his father, Stag's manager, is killed.
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Beauty Parlor
Title: Beauty Parlor
Character: Joan Perry
Released: June 15, 1932
Type: Movie
Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.
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Unholy Love
Title: Unholy Love
Character: Sheilla Bailey Gregory
Released: June 8, 1932
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed.
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Westward Passage
Title: Westward Passage
Character: Lillie, the Model (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
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Lena Rivers
Title: Lena Rivers
Character: Caroline Nichols
Released: March 27, 1932
Type: Movie
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
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Under Eighteen
Title: Under Eighteen
Character: Sybil
Released: January 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.
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Good Sport
Title: Good Sport
Character: Fay
Released: December 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Marilyn Parker decides not to accompany her husband Rex on his business trip to Europe when she receives a surprise visit from her mother.
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The Spider
Title: The Spider
Character: Butch's Girl Friend (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1931
Type: Movie
Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe’s clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant? After the police restrain the audience from leaving, Lowe uses his magical powers to help expose the killer. Watch for the terrific séance scene where weird ghost-like creatures float above the stage.
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Annabelle's Affairs
Title: Annabelle's Affairs
Character: Mabel
Released: June 14, 1931
Type: Movie
After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks by her husband and told not to part with them. However she is an extravagant spender and is forced to give the stocks to her husband's millionaire rival.....
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Women of All Nations
Title: Women of All Nations
Character: Kiki
Released: May 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
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Up Pops the Devil
Title: Up Pops the Devil
Character: Luella May Carroll
Released: May 19, 1931
Type: Movie
The marriage of an advertising man is jeopardized when he gets a chance to sell a novel he's been working on and quits his job to concentrate on writing. In order to support the family, the wife is forced to take a job as a dancer in a Broadway show. As the marriage begins to fall apart, complications ensue when she discovers that she's pregnant.
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Three Girls Lost
Title: Three Girls Lost
Character: Edna Best
Released: April 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Architect Gordon Wales finds fellow apartmenthouse resident Joan Marsh locked out and flirts with her. When she is murdered evidence points to him.
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Three Rogues
Title: Three Rogues
Character: Ace's girl
Released: March 8, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1877, thieves Ace Beaudry, Bronco Dawson and Bull Stanley head West together after having each been betrayed by a woman. They come across a wagon train bound for the town of Custer, where hundreds of people are gathering for a land rush in the Dakotas, which President Ulysses S. Grant has opened to settlers thanks to a treaty with the Sioux Indians. After the three rogues ride off, they spy a lone wagon with a tempting string of thoroughbreds. Before they can steal the horses, however, the wagon is attacked by a gang led by Layne Hunter, a shifty saloon owner from Custer. The trio chase off the gang, and as they are about to abscond with the horses, they find pretty Lee Carleton, whose father was killed in the attack.
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Lightnin'
Title: Lightnin'
Character: Betty - Larry's Wife
Released: November 28, 1930
Type: Movie
Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California while establishing residency in Nevada. When Lightnin' refuses to sell his share of the hotel to a gang of crooks, Mary is coerced into divorcing her husband so that she can sign over the deed herself.
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Wild Company
Title: Wild Company
Character: Anita Grayson
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
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The Three Sisters
Title: The Three Sisters
Character: Carlotta
Released: April 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Paul Sloane and starring Louise Dresser, Tom Patricola and Kenneth MacKenna. It was distributed by Fox Film Corporation five years before they would become Twentieth Century Fox. It is unknown whether a print of the film still exists.
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High Society Blues
Title: High Society Blues
Character: Pearl Granger
Released: March 23, 1930
Type: Movie
After selling his business in Iowa, Eli Granger and his family move to an exclusive Scarsdale area in New York, where by chance he occupies a house adjacent to Horace Divine, a wealthy businessman with whom he made his business transaction...
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Salute
Title: Salute
Character: Marian Wilson
Released: September 1, 1929
Type: Movie
A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.
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Dangerous Curves
Title: Dangerous Curves
Character: Jennie Silver
Released: July 12, 1929
Type: Movie
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him.
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The Wild Party
Title: The Wild Party
Character: Eva 'Evie' Tutt
Released: April 6, 1929
Type: Movie
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
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The Sky Hawk
Title: The Sky Hawk
Character: Peggy
Released: January 29, 1929
Type: Movie
Jack Bardell, a British aviator in World War I, a dashing hero to all who know him, is discharged following an airplane crash that occurred under suspicious circumstances. Invalided to private life, to the shame of his father, Lord Bardell, he gets his chance for redemption during a German Zepplin attack over London. He puts on a good show.
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Thunder Riders
Title: Thunder Riders
Character: Madge Lawton
Released: April 7, 1928
Type: Movie
As Betty arrives from the East Coast to take over the ranch and fortune left by her late father, the trip is interrupted by an Indian attack.
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Soft Living
Title: Soft Living
Character: Billie Wilson
Released: February 5, 1928
Type: Movie
Nancy Woods, secretary to a divorce lawyer, is tantalized by the idea of collecting alimony payments, she marries Stockney Webb with the intention of fleecing him after the honeymoon. Realizing that he has been fooled, Webb determines to teach Nancy, whom he truly loves, a lesson in humility and wifely behavior by taking her to his cabin in the wilderness.
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The Border Cavalier
Title: The Border Cavalier
Character: Madge Lawton
Released: September 18, 1927
Type: Movie
American Western film directed by William Wyler and written by Basil Dickey and Gardner Bradford.
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Ankles Preferred
Title: Ankles Preferred
Character: Virginia
Released: February 27, 1927
Type: Movie
Nora, a department store clerk, is determined to succeed on the basis of her brain power despite her attractive ankles. She gets a job as model at the shop of McGuire and Goldberg, and they announce that Nora may be given a trip abroad if she persuades their financer to lend the partners additional funds. The financer, Hornsbee, becomes presumptuous, leading to an encounter between him and Barney, Nora's young suitor; and she is ultimately glad to accept Barney's modest attentions.
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Syncopating Sue
Title: Syncopating Sue
Character: Marge Adams
Released: October 31, 1926
Type: Movie
Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career. Arthur Bennett, famous theater producer and successful star-maker, calls her into his office to complain about her loud piano under him, and she haughty replies that if he gives her a chance on stage, she will do it.
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A Broadway Lady
Title: A Broadway Lady
Character: Phyllis Westbrook
Released: November 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Chorus girl Rosalie Ryan catches the eye of Bob Westbrook, a wealthy playboy. He proposes to her but she refuses, mainly because of his heavy drinking. However, after being brazenly insulted by his family, she accepts his proposal, just to get under their skin. She finds out that Bob's sister Phyllis is planning to run off with Martyn Edwards, a cad who once betrayed a close friend of Rosalie's. Rosalie goes to Phyllis' apartment to talk her out of it, but soon finds herself involved in, and arrested for, a murder.
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What Fools Men
Title: What Fools Men
Character: Dorothy
Released: September 13, 1925
Type: Movie
Joseph Greer is a wealthy businessman in New York City with all the trappings including a prim-and-proper secretary, Jenny McFarlan, who takes dictation during working hours and, at night, minus her eyeglasses, serves as his nightclub companion and mistress. Then his daughter,Beatrice, whom he has never seen, shows up and moves in with him. Beatrice is a grown-up flapper who loves jazz, pool parties, flaunting prohibition and carrying-on in general. Most of her carrying-on is with the family chauffeur and her father does not approve, says so, and fires the chauffeur. His parental-guidance technique backfires as Beatrice ups and elopes with the chauffeur. Later, the father has some problems with his business associates and loses his business and most of his fixtures and disappears. But Beatrice locates him and there is a happy reunion between father and daughter, especially since daughter has brought along Jenny to cheer him up.